Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people recommend passing the live rope from the waist in a loop around the ice axe . |
| 2 | Students will thoroughly enjoy following the exploits of the comic cartoon characters , Carstairs and Carruthers , who are engaged in a race around the world . |
| 3 | Five days later the Army killed as many as 90 LTTE guerrillas in a battle around the strategically important northern town of Mankulam , some 15 km from Kokkavil . |
| 4 | But at Pipeline on a non-competition day there might be over twenty in a scrum around the peak as if they were shooting Marilyn Monroe . |
| 5 | The other Daughters were in a semi-circle around the Sandrat . |
| 6 | Otherwise , a volley of 10 darts fires out in a semi-circle around the front and sides of the chest . |
| 7 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 8 | Other nomes came running across the quarry floor , with Nisodemus in the lead , and piled up in a crowd around the gate . |
| 9 | It is rough , black , about four feet high and three feet wide , and huge iron spikes have been hammered in a ring around the top . |
| 10 | In a ring around the gabbro are the sheeted dykes and in the outermost ring , marking the periphery of the massif are the pillow lavas . |
| 11 | Not having a glue gun I put small bits of hot melt glue in a ring around the face plate and heat them with a heat lamp until the glue melts and a bond with the circle of wood can be made . |
| 12 | In trees , the tiny water tubes are in a ring around the inside of the trunk . |
| 13 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 14 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 15 | Kalchu , Chola and the children were eating , sitting in a circle around the empty hearth — a pit in the earth surrounded by stones . |
| 16 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 17 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 18 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 19 | In a walk around the garden of GHQ on April 30th , Falkenhayn , with that sure touch of his , managed to reassure his master , who then declared to Bethmann : ‘ Now you have the choice between America and Verdun ! ’ |